GRE Vocabulary # GRE/M173

adj. bantering
(a) tending to persuade by forcefulness of argument
(b) allowing passage in and out
(c) cleverly amusing in tone; tongue-in-cheek
(d) presenting favorable circumstances
 
v. gape
(a) tamper, with the purpose of deception; fake; falsify; cook; misrepresent
(b) wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.); chaffer; huckster
(c) get worse or fall back to a previous condition; retrogress
(d) be wide open; yaw
 
v. incur
(a) beat rapidly
(b) receive a specified treatment (abstract); find; obtain
(c) commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake; blunder; goof
(d) make better or more attractive
 
v. bewail
(a) viewpoint; standpoint; attitude
(b) regret strongly; bemoan
(c) reduce the air supply
(d) grow
 
adj. reputed
(a) inappropriate to reality or facts
(b) capable of being repaired or rectified
(c) using or knowing more than one language
(d) known as; regarded as

n. interregnum
(a) horny projecting mouth of a bird; neb; pecker
(b) everyone being of one mind
(c) the time between two reigns, governments, etc.
(d) a hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons); hoard; stash
 
n. probity
(a) complete and confirmed integrity
(b) belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins); ire; ira
(c) a fear of foreigners or strangers
(d) the scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals
 
v. denigrate
(a) cover up a misdemeanor, fault, or error; hush up
(b) chain; shackle
(c) let off the hook; free
(d) charge falsely or with malicious intent; smirch; asperse; calumniate; smear; sully; besmirch
 
v. bourgeon
(a) let sit in a liquid to extract a flavor or to cleanse
(b) investigate; research; study
(c) be engaged in a fight; struggle
(d) produce buds, branches, or germinate; germinate; pullulate; burgeon forth; sprout
 
v. mussitate
(a) make without a potter's wheel; coil
(b) make more complex, intricate, or richer; elaborate
(c) become gelatinous; congeal
(d) talk indistinctly; maunder